iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

getting my last prints finalised for FantasyCon -- see you there, i am excited to have work in the art show for the first time!

A selection of digital paintings, mostly around femmes and fish

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Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social · 8h

Descend into The Pits with the Shadow Clan in book 4 of Winter Mage, launching October 6 at the V&A Waterfront Exclusive Books & October 7 at Hyde Park Exclusive Books. RSVP at the Exclusive Books Events page.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 10h

One of my all time favourite songs, and i just realised this morning that i think every one of Falling Mirror is now dead. god that's depressing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2HI...

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Johnny calls the chemist Falling Mirror 1985

YouTube video by Claude's classical all time videos

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 11h

Before lockdowns, I used to be in a skating club that met weekly and had dedicated ice dance sessions for pattern dance. Losing that sucked, but now folk are trying to ressurect a weekly ice dance social skate and I am amped! First one is Sunday and my coach will be teaching 2 groups a new dance.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 12h

For as long as I have been writing, I have met people looking for someone else to do the work for them. They want to call themselves writers but they don't want to put the time and effort in, just boom! Instant book. Those are the people who went straight to AI. Losers and cheats.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23h

I'm calling it for today. Will work on it again tomorrow (well, when I'm not at the dentist)

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not this weekend but the one after! I'd love to see you in Glasgow, even if it's only for a day - and if it's only a day, make it Saturday so you can see me lose the award for best short story to one of @clhellisen.com @emfcamp.bsky.social or @jamesbennett.bsky.social 🤨

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Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meet Boa in book 3 of Winter Mage, launching October 6 at the V&A Waterfront Exclusive Books & October 7 at Hyde Park Exclusive Books. RSVP at the Exclusive Books Events page.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 29/09/2026

Wait what. Skinny malinky long legs is a Scottish thing? We say it in South Africa all the time. Maybe it's from the diaspora. Huh.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 29/09/2026

Book 26 Harrowmark - Deva Fagan If you love The Witcher and Dragon Age Origins and a rag tag crew of people thrown together to fight monsters in a shattered world, this is the book you are looking for.

Book cover for Harrowmark by Deva Fagan - an indigo background with gold edging, and a star shaped blue eye.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/09/2026

...turns out fantasy con is not a whole month away like I thought. IT IS NEXT WEEKEND how

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/09/2026

When I was younger, I didn't want to become an author because i thought they were all dead. I mean, how they kept making books, idk, they were just dead. I think it was better that way tbh

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And it's finally here!! Five years since Summer Sons came out, and I joined the crew at @workerslit.bsky.social to reread and chat about the book This ep also features much love for everyone's favorite big hot man, Sam Halse

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'I didn't say anything bc it would have caused a scene' 'I didn't say anything bc I didn't want to be laughed at' 'I didn't say anything bc I didn't want to lose friends' 'I didn't say anything bc it's just blokes messing around' Good men speak up. Complicit men stay silent.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/09/2026

Spent the morning making art because I need some extra pieces for Fantasy Con and currently hate everything I've ever made, such is the creative life. NOW TEA AND WORD HACKING

digital painting of a girl underwater in kelp

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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I finished @clhellisen.com Shape of Monsters over the weekend, very much my cup of tea. Fucked up magic, secretive families, backstabbing/power plays. If you enjoyed Holly Black's Charlatan Duology (Book of Night) and Kat Howard's Unseen World (Unkindness of Magicians) this is for you. #booksky 💙📚

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spotted in Waterstones, Edinburgh 🎉 @clhellisen.com 👀

Display stand of gorgeous hardback books, including the most gorgeous of all: The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 26/09/2026

Hey that's us! Come see us yammer on and maybe get an Avis swag pin if you're lucky. 💀

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 26/09/2026

Look I'm not drunk I just have to learn the hickory hoe down at a Glasgow bus station before tomorrow morning (This is not about Scotland)

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 26/09/2026

Going to the loo in a Scottish pub is a side quest. You're given a dodgy set of instructions, go down into dank dungeons, follow a twisting set of stairscases into the next building, or possibly another building across the street, down another set of stairs... Follow the signs, they said

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters by @clhellisen.com is just out! Two siblings, but only one inherits their House's wild magic... A gothic tale of dark magic, murder, demonic possession, family secrets and rivalry, where betrayals linger and power is everything. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

A hand holds a copy of the book in a bookshop. The cover has the outline of a stag's head in starfield shades of purple and black, against a background fuscia red, letters embossed in gold

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 26/09/2026

I would like my cats' life. Scream at people until food appears. Sleep. Beat the shit out of someone for fun Sleep. Scream. Zoom Sleep. Scream. Sleep. Sleep. And always be beautiful.

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Xan van Rooyen @xanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please join me online at 21:00 Helsinki time October 4th for the launch of Born of Malice, my brand new Afrocentric dark fantasy novel which comes out next week!! Register here: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOMLaunch #amreading #booksky

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 25/09/2026

Also let it be known that my coach's first words to me this morning were, 'your nails are shocking.' Clearly he watched my unboxing video. I showed him they were repainted now and he said, 'too late.'

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 25/09/2026

I did not die! Now to have breakfast and nap

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 25/09/2026

Guys I got home just before midnight after my launch and I am now on my way to the rink for my Friday 6am ice dance lesson Regrets I've had a few

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ready for the Shape of Monsters launch at Blackwell's Edinburgh!

A cupcake and a glass of wine on my knee

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy release day to @clhellisen.com ! The Shape of Monsters has proper Weird credentials and I'm loving seeing it out in a VERY handsome print edition. You should absolutely buy it and devour it, or let it devour you. Your choice.

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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A wonderful evening at @blackwells.bsky.social Edinburgh for the launch of THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS by @clhellisen.com, in conversation with @heatherpalmer.bsky.social - excellent chat and superb book-cover cupcakes.

CL Hellisen in conversation with Heather Palmer at Blackwell's Bookshop

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Edinburgh SFF @edinburghsff.com · 24/09/2026

Congratulations to ESFFer CL Hellisen on the release of The Shape of Monsters - we're on the way to the launch event and are very excited to get our hands on it!

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love this! Not sure how it would survive a storm, but it's a kind of visual poetry

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Book Birthday to this gorgeously dark tale! Check out my review over on Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DdV7I0vMW2...

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 24/09/2026

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is now out in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from @solarisbooks. Join Avis and the other passengers of the Excambion as they undertake a transatlantic crossing full of ghosts, mysterious lights on the water, and hidden secrets... Get your copy today! geni.us/avisl

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look what beauty arrived today @mkhardywrites.com ! Can't wait to read! 🌊✨️👀💙

The Hainting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It delights me that two of my favourite authors - @tessagratton.bsky.social and @clhellisen.com - both released fantasy novels this year titled 👁️SHAPE OF MONSTERS🦌! HOW COOL IS THAT??? I loved Gratton's this summer, and Hellisen's is out today! (And I'm sure I'll love that one too!)

Book cover of The Shape of Monsters by Tessa Gratton. An androgynous figure with brown skin stands behind a web of threads, holding on to two of them. At the person's feet is the silhouette of a cityscape in copper. The figure has one gold eye and one brown.

Book cover of The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen. The head of a stag is in dark blue and black, dotted with what might be stars. Behind the stag the cover is a deep wine-pink/red with floral designs like wallpaper. Beneath the title is the line 'Will magic bind them or set them free?'

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

Happy book birthday to Avis Lovelock! Go read my thoughts then buy the novel

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 23/09/2026

Join us at Fantasycon for the launch! Tablet, wine, and fine, fine stories! Some Scotland-based, some elsewhere in the universe, but all with the passion you've come to expect from the GSFWC...

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 23/09/2026

Happy bi visibility day. I am bi. That is all, go about your business.

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William in Nevada 🍎🌅🌰🐿️🌻༄˖°.🍃.ೃ࿔*:･ @william-in-nv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For those of you who still celebrate the old ways...

A woman is being carried on a throne by four other women there are two women in front playing a flute and spreading flower petals. One woman has a light jacket up on a pole. The words above say ceremony welcoming light jacket season.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

The boy and I always choose a no brain required show to watch together at night. Weve moved on to Ann Droid on the bbc and the absolute *cackle* I let out at the charity shop being full of Richard Osman books could be heard across the forth. There have been some quiet zingers in that show.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow is the release of brilliant new sapphic historical novel The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com Here's what they have to say about Victorian women mediums, killing or not killing characters, and if ghosts are real.... www.patreon.com/thequietsun/...

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Haunted Boats and a Snappy Wit | CL Hellisen

Sapphic ghostly historical The Haunting of Avis Lovelock comes out tomorrow. I finished reading it this weekend and lmty it is a TONNE of fu

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

Today's earworm is from Scene Queen 'Pink wristbands on the guest list, bras hanging on the bus, yeah, you get a lot of girls but not one is 18 plus, 18 plus, 18 plus, get those children off your bus!' youtu.be/2L57iEai79I?...

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Scene Queen - 18+ (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Scene Queen

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

oh hmmm what's this...some large boxes from Pan Macmillan? WHAT COULD BE INSIDE

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am getting subs from writers. As clearly noted, there'll be a call later. That will be a different process, via web form, and allow you to send in 3 stories only. I encourage you, then, to ask your publishers to send in their projects for consideration.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

and there we have Beth's work in...well...not a nutshell, i suppose

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